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Adults with autism vary enormously in their quality of life, and two factors may explain most of this variation.

Autism researchers who use brain scans may not be accounting for the head motion caused by study participants' breathing.

Many clinical trials, including those related to autism, do not report their results within a year of their completion.

New data challenge the idea that parents of autistic children refrain from having more children.

People with autism show significant improvements in cognitive ability from age 12 to 23 years, but their autism traits remain stable over this time.

Many people with autism experience a triad of trauma: neglect at home, abuse from trusted adults and bullying at school or work.

A new study has found that 0.2 percent of children in Oman are on the autism spectrum — an estimate about 15 times higher than the previous one.

Comprehensive care for autistic people across the lifespan and engaging families in the decision-making are priorities for a Utah-based program.

Genes involved in the formation of myelin, a fatty substance that sheathes neurons, are altered in autistic people and in several mouse models.

The long fibers of neurons in the brains of young children with autism are structured differently from those of their neurotypical peers — and from those of older children with the condition.

Bioengineers and neuroanatomists have collaborated to create a holographic representation of how information travels in the brain.

The mutation that causes Angelman syndrome makes neurons hyperexcitable, which may explain the frequent seizures that most people with the syndrome have.

A new map of the fetal brain during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy reveals the brain's complex network of connections.

What does ‘autism’ mean? And who owns this term? A keynote talk at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research dove headlong into this rabbit hole of words and their many meanings.